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Ferling on Washington Administration by Arieh Sclar

Attended the Cabinet meeting at the President’s from noon till five o’clock. The subject of deliberation was General Jackson’s late...

I walked home with Calhoun who said that the principles which I had avowed were just and noble but that in the Southern country, whenever...

“If most Southerners did not support the tariff of 1816 through a desire to have manufacturing, why then did they vote for it? The true...

Of the same nature, though of less practicable aspect, is another Utopian idea, which I presume to suggest to the genuine friends of...

Resolved, That a committee of conference and correspondence be appointed, who shall have in charge to communicate the preceding...

“The annihilation of our race is at hand unless we unite in one common cause against the common foe…Our broad domains are fast escaping...

Had the Federalists passed on their power to like-minded men in 1800, the course of economic development in the United States would have...

Unfortunately Thomas Jefferson was a better politician than Hamilton and a far better hater. The success of the Bank of the United...

"[the Founders] did not believe in political parties as such, scorned those that they were conscious of as historical models, had a keen...

In looking forward to the moment which is intended to terminate the career of my public life, my feelings do not permit me to suspend the...